Pope Benedict XVI, right, embraces Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino, Archbishop of Havana, Cuba, during the inauguration ceremony of the V Conference of Latin American and the Caribbean Bishops in Aparecida, Brazil. When a young parish priest named Jaime Ortega was freed from detention at the height of the communist onslaught against religion in Cuba, his father handed him a one-way ticket to Spain and urged him not to look back. But Ortega refused to go. Today, he is Cuba's cardinal, about to receive a visit from Pope Benedict XVI while playing an important role in coaxing President Raul Castro's government along the path of reform.
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